Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-01-29

am practical young druggist, %
years OF age, and have some money-a
few hundred dollars-with which to 60
into business. Would you advise Kan
sas or Colorado as good part OF the
West for that business?
/ have also written some for the press,
but with little success. | enclose you
few slips cut from the papers in which
these articles originally appeared.
send stamp for reply and hope you will
answer me, even though your time may
be taken up pretty well by other mat
ters. Respectfully yours,
ADoLPH JAYNEs, Lock Box 60i.
HUDSON, Wis, January l, 1886.
Mr.. Adolph Jaynes, Lock Box 6O4:
DEAR SIR: Your favor OF late date is
at hand, and / take pleasure in writing
this dictated letter to you, using the
columns OF the News as a delicate way
of teaching you. l will take the liberty
Of replying to your last question first, if
you pardon me, and | say that you
would do better, no doubt, at once, in a
financial way, to go on with your drug
business than to monky with literature.
In the first place, your style of COM
position is like the present style OF dress
among men. 1t is absolutely correct,
and, therefore, it is absolutely like that
of nine men out OF every ten we meet.
Your style Of writing has a moustache
on 1T, wears three-button cu.away OF
some Scotch mixture, carries a cane,
and wears a straight, stand up collar and
scarf. 1t is so correct and so exactly in
conformity with the prevailing style Of
composition, and your thoughts are ex-
pressed SO thoroughly like other peo-
pies methods of dressing up their
sentences and sand papering the soul
out OF what they say, that | honestly
think you would succeed better by try
ing to subsist upon the quick sales and
small profits which the drug trade in,
sures.
Now, let us consider the question o
location:
Seriously, you ought to look over the
ground yourself, but, as you have asked
me to give you my hest judgment or
the question of preference as between
Kensas and Colorado, Twill say without
hesttion that il you mean by the drus
business the sale of sure-enough drugs
medicines, paints, oils, glass, putty
toilet articles, and prescriptions care
fully compounded, | would not 60 tC
Kansas at this time.
Ii you would like to go to a flourish
ing country and put out big basswooc
mortar in front Of your shop in order
to Ill the tincture of damnatior
throughout bleeding Kansas, now il
your golden opportunity. Now is The
accepted time. II it is the great bis
burning desire of your heart to 60 int
a town OF 1000 people and open thu
t'lrleenth drug store in order that yoI
may stand behind a tall black walnu
prescription case day in and day out
with graduate in one hand aud Bah
cock fire-extingulsher in the other, fill
ing orders for whisky made of stump
water and the juice of future punish
ment, you will do well to go to Kansas
lis temperance State, and no saloon
are allowed there. But is quiet ans
orderly and the drug business is a grea
success,
You can run a dummy drug stor,
there with two dozen dreary old glas
bottles on the shelves, punctuated b,
the hand of time and the Kansas fly Q
the period, and with a prohibitory law
at your back and tall, red barrel II
the back room filled with mixtur
that will burn great holes into nature
heart and make the cemetery blossom
as the rose, and in few years you cal
sell enough OF this Justly celebrates
preparation for household, scientific an,
experimental purposes only to fill you
habby pockets with wealth, and pain
the pure air of Kansas bright and in
aammatory red.
Ii you sincerely and earnestly Year,
for field where you may go forth ant
garner an honest harvest from the leglt
innate effort of an upright soda fountain
and free and open sale of slippery elm
in its unaduterated condition, / WoulC
go to some State where | would no
have to enter into competition with
style Of pharmacy that has the unhol
instincts and ambitions of blind pig
| would not go into the field where red
eyed ruin simply awaited for a prescrip
ton blank, not necessarily for publica
ton, but simply as guaranty of goo
faith in order that it may bound fort
from behind the prescription case an
populate the poor-houses and tn
paupers nettle-grown addition to tn
silent city of the dead.
The great question of how best t
down the demon rum is before tn
American people, and it will not be pu
aside until 1t is settled; but while thi
is being attended to, Mr.. Jaynes,
would start drug store father ava
from the center of conflict and 60 O
joyously, sacrificing expensive tinc;ure
compounds and syrups at bed-roc
prices.
Go on, Mr.. Jaynes, dealing out to th
yearning, painting public, drugs, paints
oils, glass, putty, varnish, patent med
cines, and prescriptions carefully con
pounded, with none to molest or max
afraid, but shun, oh, shun, the wild-eye
pharmacopeia that contains naught br
the fostering fluid so popular in Kansa
a compound that holds crime in solr
ton and ruin in bulk, that shrivels u